Registration fees

VIRTUAL PORTION

VIRTUAL + IN-PERSON PORTIONS

* LAC = Latin America and the Caribbean

By becoming a POMS LAC member, you can save up to US$170.

We have teamed up with our colleagues from LOGYCA to create a landing page for event registration. This page will allow you to securely submit payment and your personal information to register for the conference.

You must provide your email and fill out a brief questionnaire to set your registration fee rate. 

STUDENTS: You must submit proof of your status as a student to be eligible for student discounts. When prompted, you will need to attach a picture of your university's student ID card valid for the current academic term or a letter to prove you are currently enrolled and taking courses at the university.

To receive a discounted registration fee, you must be member of both POMS and the POMS LAC Chapter. You must submit proof of membership to both:

• POMS members: Submit a screenshot of the email you received from POMS, or log into the POMS website and get a copy of your membership.
• LAC Chapter members - Members of the POMS LAC Chapter must submit proof of payment for the additional US$5 chapter membership fee.

Become a member of the POMS Latin America & Caribbean (LAC) Chapter for US$30 and save up to US$170 on the conference registration fee.

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• Participate in Board Elections: As a member of the POMS LAC chapter, you will be able to nominate, be nominated, and vote for chapter leadership positions.
• Discounted Webinar Fees: Gain access to exclusive webinars at discounted rates. Stay up to date with the latest trends and advancements in production and operations management.
• Discounts for the 2024 POMS Cartagena Conference: Enjoy substantial discounts when registering for the upcoming POMS Cartagena Conference scheduled for March 2024. 
• Discounts for POMS Annual Conference: Save on registration fees for the annual POMS meeting.
• Networking Opportunities: Connect with like-minded professionals and academics from Latin America and the Caribbean. Expand your professional network and collaborate on exciting projects.

Full details are available here (PDF download).

Click here to sign up for a POMS membership.

Don't forget! Membership in the POMS LAC chapter requires an additional US$5 fee along with the regular US$25 fee for POMS membership. Only POMS members who are also members of the LAC chapter are eligible for discounted conference registration fees.

• Holiday Inn Express Cartagena Manga

• Hotel Estelar Cartagena de Indias

• Hotel Almirante Cartagena Colombia

A portable version of these details about hotel , location and preferential fees is provided here.

We invite abstract submissions and presentations in the following thematic areas. Other topics not mentioned in the list below are also welcome if they relate to production, manufacturing, operations management, and supply chain management. 

• Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics in Operations (AIDAO)
• Defense, Tourism, and other Emerging POM Issues (DTOE)
• Healthcare Operations Management (HOM)
• Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management (HOCM)
• Urban logistics and last-mile operations (ULLMO)
• POM in Food and Agriculture (Agri-food)
• Marketing and Operations Management (MOM)
• Product Innovation and Technology in Operations Management (PITOM)
• General topics in logistics and Supply Chain Management (Log&SCM)
• Resilience and Risk in Operations (RRO)
• Retail and e-tail operations for emerging markets (ROEM)
• Service Operations and Servitization (SOS)
• Sustainable Operations and circular economy (SOCE)
• Port Operations and Intermodal Transportation (POIT)
• POM for Educational innovation (POMEI)
• Industry track
• Student paper competition (graduate and undergraduate categories)

Dates and time are provided in Eastern standard time

Saturday, March 16, 2024 - Virtual day

8:00      Check-in for Virtual journey in Zoom               
8:30      Opening remarks                
8:40      KNP session 1: "Data-driven Procurement Practices to Reduce Government Spending" - Marcelo Olivares, PhD, Associate Professor, Facultad de Economia y Negocios, Universidad de Chile
9:40      Break                 
9:50      Parallel sessions 1 (Agri-food and AIDAO)
11:10    Break                
11:20    Parallel sessions 2 (HOCM and POIT)
12:40    Break                
12:50    Parallel sessions 3 (ROEM and Log&SCM)
14:10    Break                
14:20    Tutorial session 1                
15:30    Debrief first day               
15:40    VIRTUAL ADJOURN                

For attendees and speakers staying in Cartagena de Indias                   
17:30    Visit to Casco historico - Meeting point to be defined
19:00    IN-PERSON ADJOURN                

Sunday, March 17, 2024 - Virtual day

8:00      Check-in for Virtual journey in Zoom                
8:30      Parallel sessions 1 (ULLMO and SOCE)
9:50      Break                
10:00    Parallel sessions 2 (ROEM and RRO)
11:10    Break                
11:20    Discussion panel
12:30    Parallel sessions 3 (DTOE and POMEI)
13:50    Break                
14:00    Parallel sessions 4 (Agri-food and SOS)
15:20    Debrief Virtual portion of the conference           
15:30    VIRTUAL ADJOURN                

For attendees and speakers staying in Cartagena de Indias                           
17:30    Networking with organizing and scientific committee - Meeting point to be defined         
19:00    IN-PERSON ADJOURN                

Monday, March 18, 2024 - In-person day

8:00      Registration at Universidad Tecnologica de Bolivar                              
8:45      Opening remarks                                
9:00      KNP 2: "End-to-end supply chains: Strategy and practice" - Dino Petrarolo, PhD, POMS board member, Director of CCI-GrowthCon and CEO of Next Renewable Generation
10:00    Coffee break                                
10:20    Parallel sessions 1 (HOM, Agri-food, ULLMO, ROEM, PITOM & MOM and AIDAO)
12:00    LUNCH BREAK                                                                                                                                             13:30    Parallel discussion panels            
14:30    Coffee break                                
14:50    Parallel sessions 2 (HOCM, Agri-food, ULLMO, POIT, SOCE, Student_PC)
16:30    Coffee break                                
16:50    KNP 3: "Supply chain operations and e-commerce research: Trends and gaps from the literature" - Professor Hugo Yoshizaki, PhD, Senior Professor at University of Sao Paulo                               
17:50    Take official picture and adjourn                        
18:30    Gala Dinner

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - In-person day

8:00    Registration at Universidad Tecnologica de Bolivar                              
8:50    KNP 4: "Understanding Behavioral Responses to Extreme Events: Implications for Operations Management" - Trilce Encarnacion, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Saint Louis                
9:30    KNP 5: "How Memorial Sloan Kettering us using AI to innovation operations in care delivery?" - Natalia Summerville, PhD, Director of Applied Data Science, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
10:10    Coffee break                                
10:30    Parallel sessions 1 (HOCM, Agri-food, ULLMO, Log&SCM, RRO, SOCE)
12:10    LUNCH BREAK                                
13:30    Discussion panel                            
14:30    Parallel sessions 2 (Log&SCM,Agri-food, ULLMO, SOCE, Industry track, AIDAO)
15:50    Coffee break                                
16:10    KNP 6: "Data Analytics for Process Safety and Decarbonization" - Marco Sanjuan, PhD, Director of Innovation, Promigas                               
17:10    Closure ceremony and awards                            
18:00    Take closure picture and official closure of the Conference

This conference owes a debt of gratitude to the talented, highly committed researchers from diverse universities across Latin America and the Caribbean and the world.

Steering Committee

• Armando Mendoza Díaz, Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar
• Dr. Daniel Prato, LOGYCA/INVESTIGACIÓN
• Dr. Diana G. Ramirez-Rios, University at Buffalo, SUNY
• Dr. Sofia Perez-Guzman, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Dr. Gina Galindo, Universidad del Norte
• Dr. Christopher Mejía-Argueta, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics
• Dr. Carlos A. González-Calderón, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Minas
• Dr. Irineu de Brito Junior, Universidade Estadual Paulista
• Dr. David Salinas-Navarro, Aston University
• Agatha C. da Silva Ovando, Universidad de La Sabana/Universidad Privada Boliviana
• Dr. Jorge Vargas Florez Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru
• Prof. Sushil Gupta, Florida International University (Executive director of POMS)
• Prof. Nagesh Murthy, University of Oregon (President of POMS)

Scientific Committee

• Prof. Adriana Leiras, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
• Prof. Jairo Montoya-Torres, Universidad de La Sabana
• Prof. Claudio Barbieri da Cunha, University of Sao Paulo
• Prof. Hugo Yoshizaki, University of Sao Paulo
• Prof. Ricardo Giesen, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Prof. Rene Amaya, Universidad del Norte
• Prof. Victor Cantillo, Universidad del Norte
• Prof. Carlos Paternina-Arboleda, San Diego State University
• Prof. Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu, Excelia Business School
• Prof. José Holguin-Veras, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Prof. Paulo Gonçalves, Università della Svizzera italiana
• Dr. Miguel Jaller, University of California at Davis
• Dr. Johanna Amaya, Pennsylvania State University
• Dr. Iván Sánchez-Díaz, University of Chalmers
• Dr. Andrés Muñoz-Villamizar, Flexport
• Dr. Juan G. Villegas, Universidad de Antioquia
• Prof. Gonzalo Mejia-Delgadillo, Universidad de La Sabana
• Dr. Christopher Mejía-Argueta, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics
• Dr. William J. Guerrero, Universidad de La Sabana
• Dr. Mario C. Vélez-Gallego, Universidad EAFIT
• Dr. Elena Valentina Gutiérrez, Universidad del Valle
• Dr. Diego Fernando Manotas Duque, Universidad del Valle
• Dr. Carlos Julio Vidal, Universidad del Valle
• Prof. Nubia Velasco, Universidad de Los Andes
• Dr. Oscar David Barrera, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
• Dr. Edgar Gutierrez-Franco, Food and Retail Operations Lab
• Prof. Javier Arias Osorio, Universidad Industrial de Santander
• Dr. Sergio Caballero, Walmart
• Dr. Cinthia Pérez, Escuela Politecnica del Litoral
• Dr. Trilce Encarnacion, University of Missouri – St. Louis
• Dr. Thiago Serra, Bucknell University
• Dr. Gabriela Gongora-Svartzman, Carnegie Mellon University
• Dr. Jose Walteros, University at Buffalo, SUNY
• Dr. Felipe Aros-Vera, Ohio University
• Dr. Wilfredo Yushimito, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
• Dr. Eliseo Vilalta, Aston University
• Prof. Marcelo Olivares, Universidad de Chile
• Prof. Andres Weintraub, Universidad de Chile
• Prof. Michael Pinedo, New York University

Sponsorships Committee

• Cesar Becerra, Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (CLI), LOGYCA
• Dr. Oscar Velasquez-Rodriguez, Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (CLI), LOGYCA
• Dr. Adriana Moros-Daza, Universidad del Norte
• Dr. Christopher Mejía-Argueta, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics

Support Staff

• Marketing and Communications team -  Dan McCool (MIT CTL), Chris Frontiero (MIT CTL), and Adriana Cañón, Sindy Melo and Kelly Suarez (LOGYCA)
• Finance team - Nick Burns (MIT CTL), Daniel Francois (MIT CTL) and Kelly Toscano (LOGYCA)
• Conference Assistants - Catherine Nunziata (MIT CTL), David Hidalgo, Cristiano Flores, Alessandro Silva, and Dominique Gomez De la Luz

• Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics in Operations – Dr. Raul Morales Salcedo (UDEM, Mexico); Dr. Edgar Gutierrez-Franco (MIT FaROL, U.S.); Dr. Elenna Dugundji (MIT CTL, U.S.); Dr. Jens Bürger (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Defense, Tourism, and other Emerging POM Issues - Prof. Luis Rabelo (UCF, U.S.); Prof. Rene Amaya (Uninorte, Colombia); Dr. Mauricio Gamez (MIT FaROL, U.S.); Dr. Camil Martinez (UniAndes, Colombia)
• Healthcare Operations Management - Dr. Nubia Velasco (UniAndes, Colombia); Dr. William Guerrero (Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia), Dr. Natalia Summerville (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, U.S.); Dr. Sabina Mlodzianowska and Prof. Miguel Angel Bosio Valdivia (Universidad de Lima, Peru)
• Humanitarian operations and crisis management - Prof. Adriana Leiras (PUC-Rio, Brazil); Prof. Hugo Yoshizaki (USP, Brazil); Prof. Irineu Brito Jr. (UNESP, Brazil); Dr. Gina Galindo Pacheco (Uninorte, Colombia)
• Urban logistics and last-mile operations – Dr. Carlos Suárez (USFQ, Ecuador); Dr. Andrés Bronfman (UNAB, Chile); Prof. Ricardo Giesen (PUC, Chile), Dr. Carlos A. Gonzalez-Calderon (UNAL, Colombia), Dr. Juan Carlos Piña (MIT CTL, U.S.); Prof. Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu (Excelia Business School, France); Dr. Miguel Jaller (UC Davis, U.S.); Dr. Iván Sánchez-Díaz (CUT, Sweden)
• POM for food and agri-business – Dr. Christopher Mejía (MIT CTL, U.S.); Prof. José Larco and Prof. Claudia Antonini (UTEC, Peru); Dr. Sofia Perez-Guzman (Georgia Tech, U.S.); Dr. Trilce Encarnacion (UMSL, U.S.)
• Marketing and Operations Management - Prof. Ely Laureano Paiva (FGV, Brazil); Dr. Gerardo Heckmann (UNC, Argentina); Armando Mendoza (UTB, Colombia); Dr. Diego Manotas-Duque (Univalle, Colombia)
• Product Innovation and Technology in Operations Management - Dr. Martin Tanco (Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay); Dr. Oscar Velasquez (LOGYCA, Colombia); Dr. Andres Munoz (Flexport, U.S.); Dr. Zoila Castillo (UTP, Panama)
• General topics in logistics and Supply Chain Management - Prof. Jairo Montoya Torres (Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia); Dr. Jorge Vargas (PUCP, Peru); Prof. Victor Cantillo (Uninorte, Colombia); Dr. Andre Duarte (INSPER, Brazil), PhD(c) Luigi Laporte (Instituto de Empresa, Spain)
• Resilience and Risk in Operations - Dr. Diana Ramirez (University of Buffalo, SUNY, U.S.); Dr. Juan Guillermo Villegas (UdeA, Colombia); Dr. Felipe Aros-Vera (Ohio Univ., U.S.)
• Retail and e-tail operations for emerging markets - Dr. Christopher Mejía (MIT CTL, U.S.); Prof. Mario Chong (UP, Peru); Prof. Gonzalo Mejía (Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia); Dr. Rafael Escamilla (ASU, U.S.)
• Service Operations and Servitization - PhD(c) David Hidalgo (UPM, Spain); Prof. Ricardo Cassel (UFRGS, Brazil); Dr. Heidi Romero (INTEC); Dr. Mario C. Velez-Gallego (EAFIT, Colombia)
• Sustainable Operations and circular economy – Prof. Marcio D'Agosto and Dr. Lino Marujo (UFRJ, Brazil); Dr. Vinicius Picanco Rodrigues (INSPER, Brazil); Dr. Julio Villalobos (UNAB, Chile); PDEng Teresa Brandi (ITBA, Argentina); Dr. Pablo Maya (UdeA, Colombia); Prof. Mostafa Hajiaghaei-Keshteli (Monterrey Tech, Mexico)
• Ports Operations and Intermodal Transportation - Dr. Rosa Gonzalez-Ramirez (UniAndes, Chile); Prof. Carlos Paternina-Arboleda (SDSU, U.S.); Dr. Adriana Moros-Daza (Uninorte, Colombia); Dr. Vanina Durski (UFSC, Brazil); Luis Ascencio (Porthink, Chile)
• POM for Educational Innovation – Dr. David Salinas (Aston University, U.K.); Agatha da Silva (UPB, Bolivia); Dr. Eliseo Vilalta (Aston University, U.K.); Dr. Mario Chong (Universidad del Pacifico, Peru); Dr. Alexandre Almeida del Savio (Universidad de Lima, Peru)
• Student Paper Competition – Prof. Claudio Cunha (USP, Brazil); Dr. Ximena Cordova (USFQ, Ecuador); Dr. Daniel Jurburg (Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay); Dr. Jorge Chicaiza-Vaca (CEET, Ecuador); Prof. Michelle Rodríguez (UP, Peru)
• Industry Paper Competition - Isabel Agudelo (GFN, U.S.); Alejandra Acevedo (Adidas, Colombia); Galo Sanchez (The Flower Group, Ecu-Col-Kenya); Dr. Daniel Prato (LOGYCA, Colombia); Dr. Jose Alejandro Montoya (Coordinadora Mercantil, Colombia)

• Manuscript for short paper in Word
• Manuscript for short paper in LaTeX (Special credits to Dr. Oscar Tellez-Sanchez)
• Slide deck

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